An Electronic Logo

Here's a logo - a short audio piece designed to make people think of you and your business or projects. This one sounds like a gong, and I call it "Electric Gong Logo."

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Sporty Rock

Here's an uptempo rock track suitable for sports or motivational media projects.

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Remembering Ed Shaughnessy

I was saddened to read the news of the death of drummer Ed Shaughnessy. Ed is best known to musicians as the man who held down the drum chair in Doc Severinsen's NBC Orchestra on "The Tonight Show" for almost thirty years. Lesser known, but equally important, were his efforts to educate and promote musicians. I had the honor to meet the man, and count myself better for the experience.

Mirror Lake

This is "Mirror Lake." It's a quiet, impressionist New Age piece and will be included on the album I hope to release later this year. But you can license it now, royalty free.

Quiet Motivation

Here's an uptempo, but not overbearing motivational piece. It features a chamber orchestra arrangement and evokes a sense of getting moving with quiet determination.

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A Jazzy Blues Shuffle

Here's a jazzy blues shuffle featuring a nice Hammond B3 to start off the week.

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When Ideas Kidnap You

As the title of this post indicates, sometimes I feel like musical ideas come along from seemingly out of nowhere and hold me hostage. Once captive, I have to finish them or else. Or else what? It haunts me and interferes with the rest of my life until I get it into a form I can publish, or at least call "finished enough." As I've mentioned before, I'm a perfectionist, and have been known to revisit something I committed to analog or digital media 20 or more years ago just because the muse bugs me and whispers in my ear "the bass could be just a little louder." So this can absolutely drive me nuts.

Other times I get started on an idea, work on it for an hour so, and then just run out of gas. It's almost as though I'm hunting through my mind for a sound I want to make. Within in an hour or so, I'm either committed to make it happen or I sort of "lose the scent" and the music seems to escape me. My excitement level suddenly flags, and then the inspiration flees as quickly as it showed up. At times like that I often wonder if I don't like where my muse is going with an idea, or if it's the other way around.

Strange how in all of this I compare myself both to a captive and a predator. It is dinnertime yet?

A Fanfare for Today

I had a couple of new sales over the weekend, including this "news lead fanfare."

Thanks again to everyone who supports my royalty-free music through buying or spreading the word. Your patronage means a lot to me!

An Action-Suspense Theme

Here's an action-oriented theme with lots of orchestra splashes, it starts slowly but quickly builds to a dramatic climax. Great for action-oriented book trailers.

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A Hopeful Track

Here's a track designed to convey a "Glimmer of Hope" for your media project.

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Christmas in May!

I sold two new pieces overnight. One is "Holiday Hustle Bustle," which is one of the first pieces I created and uploaded to Pond5 last November.

This is a nice surprise to say the least. "Holiday Hustle Bustle" was my first sale back then and remains my most successful track to date. Whoever bought it was smart to do it out of season, because I'm planning to raise the price on this one come fall.

I also got a sale of the track "Bright World," which I featured here recently. Thanks so much to everyone who supports my music by buying royalty-free or just passing the word along.

A Retro Latin Groove

Here's a romantic track with a retro ballroom feel. It features jazz guitar and vibes, and alternates between a light samba and a beguine feel. A great background for period media projects or a golden anniversary video.

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